The Santa Clara Sporting 91 Green Team are graduating from high school this May and leave behind a legacy of soccer and academic success, and have set the benchmark for all teams to follow in their footsteps. Beyond all the trophies and titles the team collected during the past five years, the greater accomplishment is that all Sporting ’91 players have or will graduate from high school. 20 players will pursue higher education and have been recruited to play intercollegiate sports; nineteen players will compete on college soccer teams, and one player was recruited as a football kicker/punter.

It is understood that playing soccer at the "next level" in college, is a worthy aspiration for the younger Sporting players, but the message the team would like to send is that the Sporting ’91 Team achieved significant soccer success — including three State Cup championships in the past four years — at the same time that these players were also succeeding in high-level high school coursework (including many honors and AP classes), varsity sports, and other extracurricular and community service activities.

All of this required no small measure of focus, commitment, goal-setting, perseverance, teamwork, and time management on the part of these extraordinary young men. And, by the way, our players could not have done this without supportive parents, teachers, coaches and the Sporting Club.

Congratulations to all the players, coaches and parents, and good luck in the future ahead!